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September 2, 2014

Honestly, I’m convinced at this point that nothing suggested on Azure Feedback is ever implemented. Someone asked for CAA records almost a year ago - feedback.azure.com... - and it’s just not happening... going to have to move my DNS somewhere else (can’t be Linode because I often don’t have a server, and you need one for the free DNS). Any suggestions for free (or cheap) DNS hosts?

PSA for those who use Linode DNS: they seem to have quietly added support for CAA records, so you can now create issue and iodef records for monitoring SSL certificate mis-issuance. More info on CAA here: scotthelme.co.uk/c...

I have a problem at work I’m stuck on and I can’t find anything online about this bug. Has anyone ever had a systemd timer configured `OnCalendar=*-*-* 01:30:00` (so 1:30 AM) but it’s firing _every 12 hours_?! It runs 1:30 PM too as well as 1:30 AM. Other Linux boxes with “identical, as far as I can tell” configuration behave properly (run once every 24 hours at 1:30 AM). Ubuntu/17.04, Linux/4.9.36, systemd/232. Any tips greatly appreciated, been stuck for days on this! #ComputersAreNotDeterministic

So I checked out GitLab the other day, the UI isn't a complete disaster anymore so I might give it another go. I'll probably setup GitHub to mirror the repos, but I just want to host my stuff elsewhere, ideally on a platform I can self host if need be.

I actually like it less now than I used to. There are so many options, features, and knobs that it's overwhelming when all you want is a simple Git repo. I like that it's a little further off the beaten path, but for my current projects it's just too complex.

I use GitLab to host all my stuff. My GitHub account is just for keeping track of repos I favorite. I decided to do this about a year ago or so and since then, GitHub's made plans better but MEH. I love having ownership over my repos (and my server is automatically backed up).

It really starts to pay off once you take advantage of the libraries and methods. I'm keeping my thesis in sync with the source code of the accompanying program because the .tex file is linked directly to the source file. It takes only a couple of seconds to rebuild the PDF file, mostly because it is doing syntax highlighting for an 800 line program.

macOS tip I just found out about: you can in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modified Keys... change caps lock, among others, to do other actions like escape. You can also disable it. I'd reccomend Caps Lock either be disabled (just use shift) or mapped to Escape for Vim or Control for easier terminal use.

Their letters are deliberately over aggressive and threatening. Just ignore them, everything on them is fake (even the names and figures). bbctvlicence.com Is a brilliant site, the guy has archived every letter he's got from them. You can see how the automated system loops round. The pages explaining the finer points are pretty funny too (e.g. The fictional authors of the letters and ever changing signatures). The most amusing part is the bbc's scramble to buy up the other domains similar to his.

Here it is included as a tax in the electric bill. Despite this, the national TV still has 15 minutes of ads per hour and the shows and films they make are terrible, which I think is the major difference with BBC.

About 7 years ago, Steve Jobs published "Thoughts on Flash" that in many cases started the push towards HTML 5. Today, I think we can say we won. blogs.adobe.com/co... we won years ago, of course, but now we have the EOL: 2020. The web is infinitely safer and more open without plugins! Here's to Flash's long awaited burial. Rest In Peace.